GENERAL SUMMARY.

Marlborough Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2055, 10 January 1887, Page 3

GENERAL SUMMARY.

THE POPE AND LORD lIDDESLEIGH. SALE OF FRED ARCHER’S HORSES. LORD SALISBURY REDUCES HIS RENTS. FAILURE OF COWAN AND CO. THE ANTI-TITHE AGITATION IN WALES* TERRIFIC GALE IN ENGLAND. QUEEN VICTORIA AND THE CAMPBELL DIVORCE CASE. GLADSTONE ON THE IRISH ANTIRENT AGITATION. THE QUEEN AND THE BATTENBURGS. A ROYAL FAMILY FEUD. IRISH AFFAIRS. SERIOUS RIOTING AT CORK. ENCOUNTER BETWEEN ORANGEMEN AND ROMAN CATHOLICS. THE TRIAL OF JOHN DILLON, M.P. (PEH I’KESS ASSOCIATION.) Auckland, Jan, 8. General Summary dates from Europe are to Dec. 17. The London Chamber of Commerce has emphatically endorsed the Postmaster - General’s American Mail policy. The Dublin Nation says, in connpetion with the proposal to send a British Envoy to the Vatican, that Lord Iddesleigb a*ked for tlie right to object to undesirable appointments to Catholic vacancies in Great Britain, and that the Pope answered to the effect that persons who in any way violated the law would not be encouraged &g spreading the Gospel of Peace was the object of the Church. An auction sale of blood stock belonging to the late Fred Archer, jockey, was completed at Newmarket on the 17th December and realised L 5555. Olulporio brought L 740. ° Lord Salisbury on the 16th Dec reduced the rents of his Had field estate-20 per cent. His example is being generally followed by the large hind owners. Cowan and Co., ship-brokers and merchants, of Glasgow, failed on the Uth for LIOO,OOO. ' lhe British Agent at Aden has >een asked by his Government to explain the motive he had in removing tfic French flag a- Dongarita t l } Sgmoulli, 'he place being in territory over which b -th England and v ranee claim protection. The explanation is to be made at the request of the French Government. Five Welsh farmers leading in the ami-tithe movement were distrained for failing to pay tithes. Mr Gladstone writes the Welsh

Liberal Associ -tion that he regards their designs with i iterest, but at his age he mine leave the agitation to younger men. A despatch from Zanzibar says that Mirango of Ngando with his forces had defeated King Kagreba and 10,000 men. The German ironclad Moen had sailed from Ztrzibir to punish the murderers of the explorer Jubilika. Prince Alexander of Bulgaria arrived in Loudon on the 8 h. !'be Queen decorated him with die ' )id r of the Bath. Two heavy failures were rep >rt j I in London on Doc. 11th. Lurk a->d Sons, general merchants, f<>a L 1,000,000, and Elmund Davis, a West End solicitor, for LIOO,OOO. A terrific gale accompaoh d by lightning and thunder prevailed on the night of December 7,h and the morning of the Bih ii the southern counties of England, and in the Channel, wheree number of vessels were wrecked. At Brighton much damage was done. Tnroughonfc the kingdom rain and hail fell, an 1 the storm caused wide-spread disaster In Scotland there <vas a he ivy fall of snow. The Queen forbade the admission into the household at Windsor Castle, or within the Castle precincts, of newspapers containing sensational reports of the Campbell divorce case, Mr Gladstone's disapproval of the anti-rent campaign in Ireland was expressed in a private letter to Mr Cameron, member for Glasgow, The Scotch Aid and other liberal Asso. ciations are not satisfied, and have asked Mr Gladstone for a full and public declaration on the subject. The English Government has decided to supply the Army with Austrian Fischer repeating rifles. Fischer has gone to London to superintend the final trial of his iifle at Enfield. Lord Tennyson’s new book of poems “Locksley Hall, Sixty years Afrer ” was published on December 14. A cynical view of the denim* ciation of democratic opinion and aspiration runs through tho poem American correspondents in London are gossipping freely concorning the private affairs of Royalty. The New York Tribune’s letter of 16th December says, “ Queen Victoria con inues \ ' favor Battenburg and the Royal family feud is becoming more bitter. The Prince of Wales ignores the presence of Prince Alexander at Windsor and has remonstrated with the Queen for advancing him o the rank of the Military Cross of the Order of the Bath, a grade to which the Emperor William and Prince Impeiial of Germany belong There was serious rioting at Cork on Dec 5, and a number of police and citizens were injured, the latter by bayonet thrusts; 25 persons were treated in the hospital for scalp wounds. The Government have obtained from the Law Officers of the Crown, Dublin, an opinion to the effect that tenant trustees and others conspiring to defraud the landlords of their due rent are liable to indictment under the common law The Ulster Royalist anti-repeal Union send the Lord-Lieutenant resolutions expressing dissatisfaction with the weakness of the Irish Executive in dealing with tbo defiant and shameless conspiracy to defraud one class of Irish people and to demoralise another and assuring the Government of the Union’s continual support in any attempt to crush the conspiracy, Archbishop Walsh, of Dublin, published a letter on December 8 warning the Government that the difficulties in Ireland, already appalling, would be immensely increased if they persisted in their attempts to convict prisoners by means of picked or packed juries as was done in Sligo. The Catholics of Lurgan formed in procession on the night of Dec. 7th, and marched through the streets to show their joy at the acquittal of some of their number who were tried on charges of riot* ing. The Orangemen of the town attacked the parade, and a fierce riot ensued, in which sticks, stones, and revolvers were used. The fighting lasted for several hours, and was finally quelled rn the early morning by the dragoons, which had to be called out. A score of persons were wounded, and several houses were partly wrecked. The Duke Cf Manchester has made a- permanent reduction of 25 per cent in the rent on a] I his estates in Ireland. A despatch from Dublin, Dec. 12, says preparations are already being made in that City to give Michael Davitt and Ira bride a grand welcome. Davi t married a Miss Yore, of Oaklands, California, during his recent visit to the Pacific Coast.. The Protestant Tlome Ruler' r Dublin, at a meeting on Decern-m----13, lesoived in favor of free speech in I lie open'air, and fair play to the Catholics. On December 14, Judge Lawson, Belfast, sentenced four umn ar.rested for wrecking houses in the riots ;n June last, to four months’ imprisonment each. The prisoners all pleaded guilty. At the instigation of the Pope instructions have been pre-pared by Cardinal Simeoa to the Irish Bishops, warning them to keep their clergy scrupulously within the limits of duty in regard to the antirent movement. In John Dillon’s case, called before the Dublin Court on December 14, the defendant appeared on his

own behalf. He was charged with agitating in favor of what i< called the “ plai of campaign. *’ Jo b s a klress Dillon said h- Crown was sb-aining )ho law against him The Judgo da ltr- d “ the plan of camptign ” was clearly and absolutely 11 egal. He ordered DPlmi to give binds in the i um 'f 2000, with two -ure ies f >r LI 000 each, f *i’ lbs good b havioor ii ihe tutu *- wirlv> 12 lay- o' go t prison fir 6 m nitli -. Dil on was a r spul in Lough ey, Cuun’y Galway, on Dec Id ft"d charged with conspiracy to defraud At Tie same time and plane, and • n a similar charge, O’Brien, editor of the G.iir.n.l I e and, M itthew, M.P. for Has Gaiway. and David Sheeny M.P, for South Galway, were also taken into custody The prisoners have be n acting as irustem in i undue Trig A. F Dil on’s “plan of campaign,” and had received f oni dissati tie* tenants the mine d rents refused by the landl >rd.s or their agen's. At the time rf making the arr sts the police took away from Dilion L6O which lie bad ju it received from tenants.